“What is home without a mother?” This is the serious question every family faces as generations change hands. As I continue to care for my mom, let’s be entertained by a story in which a mother’s absence is only temporary, and four little children are left unsupervised a wee bit too long. Prudy Keeping House … More To My Young Friend, Bessie Baker
Greetings after a short trip to Boston and the Cape (yay!) and some weeks afterwards to manage my mom’s hospitalization and recovery. I expect this pattern to continue, so I will write as I am able and invite any of you to submit guest posts for us to read in between times. Let me know … More Remembering Our Revolutionary Heroes: Ancestral Stories for July 4th
I got my first library card at the Tempe Public Library, on the corner of 5th and Myrtle. I remember entering that evening with my family, selecting my first books, and celebrating at Dairy Queen afterwards. In a family of readers, it was a rite of passage. At right and left of the fireplace rose … More Libraries, Those Wonderful Places!
Goodness, Emilie! You’d think that after reading Emilie Loring’s works so many times, I would have had a better idea of how many literary references she made in them. But I underestimated her. I started with her first novel, The Trail of Conflict, thinking, in my innocence, that I’d construct a full booklist of her … More Exploring Emilie Loring’s Literary Richness
I often look up the quotations in Emilie Loring’s books as clues to what she read. Alexandra caught a quotation in High of Heart that I hadn’t yet researched, and I scurried down a rabbit hole trying to find both its origin and the copy most likely to have caught Emilie’s eye. Where did it come from? … More Uncovering Emilie Loring’s Literary Influences
B is for Biography I visited my hometown of Tempe, Arizona last weekend and stopped in to visit Happy Landings at the local, public library. Oh, how nice. The book was right where the card catalog said it would be, and it was turned outward to face browsing library patrons. Splendid. But wait! On the … More Library Shelving: The Case of Happy Landings
Emilie Loring loved color! “Makes no difference where I see it, in a shop window or a gay gown. Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus—sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.” (Hilltops Clear) That’s … More Emilie Loring’s Hollyhock Cretonne: A Delightful Century-Old Find
The Emilie Loring Collection 